Much to the joy of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), ABC’s Frh Off the Boat had one of s teenage characters officially “e out” as a lbian on the Wednday, November 7 episo, “A League of Her Own.”
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HUDSON YANG PERFECTLY DTROYS HOMOPHOBE CONMNG GAY CHARACTER ON ‘FRH OFF THE BOAT’
All Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr, etc. You gay? That eloquent haiku, scrawled on a ffee cup, is one of the first, albe clumsy, attempts by “Frh Off the Boat” character Nile (Luna Blaise) to figure out what means to live as a gay dividual.
He reveals the feelgs to his close iend Buffy (Sofia Wylie) an emotnal scene, but do not actually label himself as gay. “First and foremost, wasn’t jt a, ‘Hey, I’m gay, ’ wasn’t that nversatn. She nclus that she’s gay, and out first to her mother and eventually her whole fay.
The show troduc gay characters and issu as a matter of urse s storytellg. “Not only do ‘Danger & Eggs’ have gay reprentatn — I mean, lerally the season fale ’s all the characters at their lol Pri para — [but also] there are non-bary characters on that show. ‘Frh Off the Boat’ Gets Its First Gay Character.